The Greatest Books of All Time on Education

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
4421 Memoirs Of The Author Of A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman William Godwin 1798 British English
4421 Guide To Kulchur Ezra Pound 1938 American English
4449 Abyssinian Chronicles Moses Isegawa 1998 Dutch English
4459 The Truly Disadvantaged William Julius Wilson 1987 American English
4471 The Unheavenly City Edward C. Banfield 1970 American English
4500 Mister Pip Lloyd Jones 2006 New Zealand English
4511 The Aula Hermann Kant 1965 German German
4528 The Medium Is The Massage Marshall McLuhan 1967 Canadian English
4538 Special Topics In Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl 2006 American English
4543 A New Life Bernard Malamud 1961 American English
4556 A Naughty Boy G'afur G'ulоm 1940 Uzbek Uzbek
4677 Our Bodies, Ourselves Unknown 1970 American English
4719 I'll Take My Stand Twelve Southerners 1930 American English
4722 The Bride Price Buchi Emecheta 1976 Nigerian English
4724 Of Time and the River Thomas Wolfe 1935 American English
4734 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation M. T. Anderson 2006 American English
4830 Patterns of Childhood Christa Wolf 1976 German German
4867 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
4991 Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie Eve Curie 1937 French French
5005 Be Faithful Unto Death Zsigmond Móricz 1921 Hungarian Hungarian
5042 The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out Richard P. Feynman 1999 American English
5106 Saving The Appearances Owen Barfield 1957 British English
5109 Brother Of The More Famous Jack Barbara Trapido 1982 British English
5119 North Toward Home Willie Morris 1967 American English
5250 The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach 2011 American English
5255 The Harpole Report J. L. Carr 1972 British English
5293 Padre Padrone Gavino Ledda 1975 Italian Italian
5304 The Love Of Learning And The Desire For God Jean Leclercq 1960 French French
5414 Bad Science Ben Goldacre 2008 British English
5445 Egy polgár vallomásai Sandor Marai 1934 Hungarian Hungarian
5516 Think On These Things Jiddu Krishnamurti 1964 Indian English
5592 Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot 1866 French English
5600 Changing My Mind Zadie Smith 2009 British English
5627 Olivia Dorothy Bussy 1949 British English
5628 School At The Frontier Géza Ottlik 1959 Hungarian Hungarian
5668 The Little Misery François Mauriac 1951 French French
5668 The boys Henry de Montherlant 1969 French French
5668 For Your Own Good Alice Miller 1980 Swiss French
5774 The Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway 1989 Australian English
5780 Special Friendships Roger Peyrefitte 1943 French French
5813 The City Of The Sun Tommaso Campanella 1623 Italian Latin
5825 Moralia Plutarch -100 Greek Greek
5835 Miss Susie Slagle's Augusta Tucker 1939 American English
5836 Satires Persius 62 Latin Latin
5847 The Last Shot Darcy Frey 1994 American English
5863 The School for Wives Molière 1662 French French
5863 The Book Of The Courtier Baldassare Castiglione 1528 Italian Italian
5892 Louis Lambert Honoré de Balzac 1832 French French
5971 Falling Leaves Adeline Yen Mah 1997 Chinese English
5987 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
5993 The Children's Book A. S. Byatt 2009 British English
6004 The Rehearsal Eleanor Catton 2008 New Zealand English
6123 The Lives Of Christopher Chant Diana Wynne Jones 1988 British English
6130 Negroland Margo Jefferson 2015 American English
6164 Slouching Towards Kalamazoo Peter De Vries 1983 American English
6169 The Tower Uwe Tellkamp 2008 German German
6175 Philosophy and Civilization John Dewey 1931 American English
6219 The Origin Thomas Bernhard 1975 Austrian German
6227 Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane 1986 South African English
6295 Oracle Bones Peter Hessler 2006 American English
6304 A Life Of Her Own Émilie Carles 1977 French French
6322 A Fortunate Life A. B. Facey 1981 Australian English
6323 Living Up The Street Gary Soto 1985 American English
6382 Enquiries Into The Course Of Nature In The Development Of The Human Race Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1797 Swiss German
6432 Ideas and Opinions Albert Einstein 1954 German English
6472 The Belles Lettres Papers Charles Simmons 1987 American English
6481 I'm Not Scared Niccolò Ammaniti 2001 Italian Italian
6485 Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas 1985 American English
6493 A Voice From The South Anna Julia Cooper 1892 American English
6522 Crow Lake Mary Lawson 2002 Canadian English
6531 Born A Crime Trevor Noah 2016 South African English
6557 King Matt The First Janusz Korczak 1923 Polish Polish
6559 Prep Curtis Sittenfeld 2005 American English
6574 Combats Pour L'histoire Lucien Febvre 1953 French French
6599 Benjamin Franklin Carl Van Doren 1938 American English
6605 Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance 2016 American English
6637 The Opoponax Monique Wittig 1983 French French
6655 Invisible Child Andrea Elliott 2021 American English
6661 Mendeleyev's Dream Paul Strathern 2000 British English
6664 How The Word Is Passed Clint Smith 2021 American English
6717 Stories of Adalbert Stifter Adalbert Stifter 1801 Austrian German
6717 The Son of a Servant August Strindberg 1886 Swedish Swedish
6717 On The Aesthetic Education Of Man Friedrich Schiller 1794 German German
6755 I Hotel Karen Tei Yamashita 2010 American English
6767 A Grammatical Institute Of The English Language Noah Webster 1783 American English
6767 A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible Isaiah Thomas 1788 American English
6767 New England Primer Unknown 1687 American English
6767 Mc Guffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer William Holmes McGuffey 1836 American English
6767 Peter Parley's Universal History Samuel Goodrich 1837 American English
6767 The American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine E. Beecher 1869 American English
6767 Idaho Federal Writers' Project 1937 American English
6831 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett 2007 British English
6835 There Are No Children Here Alex Kotlowitz 1991 American English
6903 Ain't No Makin' It Jay MacLeod 1987 American English
6957 There Will Be No Miracles Here Casey Gerald 2018 American English
6989 Red China Blues Jan Wong 1996 Canadian English
7106 Technopoly Neil Postman 1992 American English
7216 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
7216 An Apology For Poetry Philip Sidney 1595 British English
7216 The Works Of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson 1787 British English
7216 The Learned Ladies Molière 1672 French French
7216 Essays Matthew Arnold 1865 British English
7216 Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1861 British English
7216 Essays Of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 Scottish English
7216 An Egyptian Childhood Taha Husayn 1929 Egyptian Arabic
7216 The Rise Of David Levinsky Abraham Cahan 1917 American English
7215 The Jailing Of Cecelia Capture Janet Campbell Hale 1985 American English
7567 Red Scarf Girl Ji-li Jiang 1997 Chinese English
7589 Moo Jane Smiley 1995 American English
7712 Child Of The Dark Carolina Maria De Jesus 1960 Brazilian Portuguese
7755 Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2007 Dutch English
7782 The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci Jonathan Spence 1984 American English
7796 The Politics of American English, 1776-1950 David Simpson 1986 American English
7818 Ties That Bind, Ties That Break Lensey Namioka 1999 American English
7852 Thinking In Pictures Temple Grandin 1995 American English
7870 The Life Changing Magic Of Numbers Bobby Seagull 2019 British English
7911 The Lesson Eugène Ionesco 1951 French French
7986 The History Of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1849 British English
8052 Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Paulo Freire 1970 Brazilian Portuguese
8076 Nurture Shock Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman 2008 American English